The car of the future is pictured in an imagined scene in a 1950s science magazine. The illustration depicts a family sitting in a big convertible, a tail-finned monster. Mom, Dad, and the kids (brother and sister) are in a …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered BNSF Railway to reinstate two workers in Montana and Wyoming after determining they were illegally fired when they reported they were injured at work. OSHA said Monday that BSNF violated whistleblower portions …
An Alcoa machine shop worker in Texas has been arrested in what prosecutors call a $1 million scam to order, steal and then resell equipment. Prosecutors in Victoria say 55-year-old Jack Kennedy of Houston remains in custody pending a detention …
Three members of the Ocean City Housing Authority board have resigned apparently because of a dispute stemming from the reimbursement of money for Superstorm Sandy repairs. Chairman Ed Price, vice chairman Stephen Lalli and commissioner Marlene Sheppard stepped down after …
More than three years after the tsunami hit Japan, evidence of the disaster continues to haunt the West Coast where residents know they also are vulnerable. A skiff that was once used by someone near Sendai washed ashore in January …
Liz Johnson has won the Democratic primary for insurance commissioner in Georgia. Johnson, a retired insurance agent from Statesboro, beat out Keith Heard, an insurance associate from Fayetteville. Johnson had nearly 70 percent of the vote with 67 precincts reporting. …
British police say they have a pretty good idea who stole two diamond rings and a wedding band from a Kingston shop on Sunday – the suspected thief left his cellphone behind, with a photo of himself as the screensaver. …
The government has no way of fully knowing which U.S. chemical facilities stock ammonium nitrate, the substance that exploded last year at a Texas fertilizer plant and killed 14 people, congressional investigators say. Outdated federal policies, poor information sharing with …
Three U.S. public companies identified as Chinese hacking victims didn’t report the theft of trade secrets and other data to investors, despite rules designed to disclose significant events. Two of the companies — aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. and metals supplier …
The veteran driver whose bus crashed through a guardrail, leaving the front end hanging over the Massachusetts Turnpike, appeared to have a cellphone in her hand at the time of the crash, according to an investigative report. The driver, Shanna …